(The Week) – On Thursday, Time revealed the cover for its June 9 issue, featuring transgender actress Laverne Cox. Cox, who stars in Orange Is the New Black, symbolizes...
New Orleans’s Recovery School District will close all of its remaining traditional public schools, according to the Washington Post. Education was one of the major reforms...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Six decades after Brown v. Board of Education, an old idea is being resurrected in hopes of...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – More than 60 percent of Black students could receive greater financial aid for college through the Pell...
Boy killed while defending his sister from sexual assault by Joey Matthews Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Eight-year-old Martin Cobb and his...
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A 16-year-old who believed he was being ripped off shot and killed a northeastern Pennsylvania cab driver who refused to take...
NEW YORK (AP) — Maya Angelou will not attend the 2014 MLB Beacon Awards Luncheon, where she will be honored. Major League Baseball cited “health...
(New York Times) – Vincent Harding, a historian, author and activist who wrote one of the most polarizing speeches ever given by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther...
COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — When they pull up to a gas station these days, Detroit drivers are looking beyond the price per gallon...
ERIK SCHELZIG, Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As the rest of the nation debates the feasibility and humanity of lethal injections against a backdrop of...
(NPR) – NPR announced Tuesday that it would cease broadcast of the weekday program Tell Me More on Aug. 1 and eliminate 28 positions as part of...
CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. (WSB TV) — A student says fallout over her quote in the yearbook is threatening to ruin her senior year. Paris Gray...
(Los Angeles Times) – Donald Sterling made several attempts to deflect responsibility for his rant against African Americans — even asking his companion V. Stiviano to...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In 1954, Lucinda Todd was one of 13 plaintiffs in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief [FIRST OF TWO ARTICLES] WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A search firm hired by the NAACP ranked Rev. Frederick D. Haynes,...
by Richard B. Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) – When an Ohio judge sentenced Kelley Williams-Bolar to jail for enrolling...
Shevry Lassiter talks health with men at Mason’s barber shop. Filmed and edited by Rising Spivey.
